I feel quite thankful this year! Hope it is a wonderful day for you.

 Yep! You can get this pattern at Angela Catirina on Etsy.

From an A.V. Club feature about the blogs-to-books phenomenon. Not sure how I feel about being characterized as a "female audience looking for strong, sassy women to take back knitting," but it's nice to be noticed. First Stephanie Pearl-McPhee comes in at #15 of the Fifty most Influential Female Bloggers, and now this! One more mention and we may be witnessing a genu-wine heyday.

 11-12.
The Yarn
Harlot series and Drunk, Divorced & Covered In Cat Hair (crazyauntpurl.com)

Knitting
blogs are the estrogen-fueled, crafty-fingered appendix of the blogosphere:
surprisingly large once you take a look at them, yet hardly noticeable to
anyone but the busy bacteria that hang out there. Although the bulk of
knitblogging consists of pictures of wip's (works in progress), celebrations of
fo's (finished objects), and laments about frogging (unraveling to fix
mistakes), some of the most confessional and prolific bloggers have made the
leap into books. The Yarn Harlot (Stephanie
McPhee) of Toronto has no fewer than six books since 2005 based on her
immensely popular blog, and her personal appearance all over North America take
on a carnival air, with hundreds of knitters showing up to be photographed
holding the Harlot's current sock-in-progress.

Crazy Aunt Purl (Laurie Perry)
of Los Angeles parlayed the therapeutic knitting and blogging she began after
divorcing her husband of eight years into the 2007 book Drunk, Divorced
& Covered In Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures Of A 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split. Both cater to a female audience looking for strong, sassy
women to take back knitting from the popular image of grandmas in rocking
chairs. And they deliver by talking about beer much more than your grandma ever
should.

Focus on the Family is laying off a chunk of its workforce at the Colorado Springs HQ.

There is speculation that part of their economic problem is that they dumped a pile of dough on the Yes on h8te campaign in California.  Couldn't have happened to a better group of hate-mongers.

It's time to start focusing on what's really important right now.

from 52 to 48 with love

You can't say "I don't know where to vote!"

Go here, or here, right now and find out.  Or just google "where do I vote".  Seriously, it's that easy.

And don't worry about the predicted long lines - we're knitters after all!  Bringing along a project will make the time fly by.

Even if you are not in a swing state, please remember just how important your vote is.  There are local races and ballot questions in your state that are critical and you'll be casting a vote in an historic election. 

If you have problems at the polling place call
1-866-MYVOTE1 (866-698-6831) or
1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español). 

Go vote!

Michelle Malkin is calling out "unhinged moonbat" liberal knitters, and yet doesn't mention Knitting Liberally once. But we have found a new awesome knitting liberal at The Little Red Blog of Revolutionary Knitting.

Have you checked out The Obama Craft Project yet?  If not, go quickly!

Some teasers (each image links to the project entry):

 Also via The Obama Craft Project, head on over here to download a free intarsia Obama sweater pattern.  And get knitting! You'll need something to do with your hands whie watching the returns come in.

Can you imagine denying candy on Halloween to a child because their parent supports a different political candidate than you? Me neither.

This McCain - Palin supporter has no problem with it.